Wynn Resorts’ legal battle to get its $2.1 billion project in Everett, near Boston, from the ground received a boost on Friday as soon as the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recommended the company for a waterfront development permit.

The Everett project, which will be known as the Wynn Boston Harbor, has been beset by legal challenges at every turn, despite having been awarded a continuing state gaming license by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission in late 2014.

Wynn has been sued by the City of Boston, plus the City of Somerville, throughout the water from the chemical that is former on which project are built. Meanwhile, the populous City of Revere, where a competing Mohegan Sun proposal did not win over the gaming payment, has sued the gaming commission for failing to be won over by its competing proposal.

While the Boston lawsuit was thrown out in December 2015 by a judge who blasted it for being ‘spurious,’ and filled with ‘inflammatory descriptions,’ and ‘hyperbole,’ the Somerville challenge remained the impediment that is only proceeding.

Contaminated with Arsenic and Lead

Construction was halted four months ago when Somerville’s mayor, Joseph Curtatone appealed the waterfront permit which had initially been approved by the DEP in Janu Continue reading →